Orsimer
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The Orsimer (commonly known as orcs) are a fantasy race of elves featured in the Elder Scrolls video game series. Though brutish in appearance, they are a highly sophisticated people and are known for their fierce loyalty and physical and mental hardiness, as well as for their skill in the use of heavy armors and weaponry. They make their home in the province of High Rock in northwestern Tamriel.
According to legend, the Orsimer are descended from the members of a small religious subset of the Altmer who worshipped the minor deity Trinimac. When the Daedric Prince Boethiah devoured Trinimac and transformed him into the Daedroth Malacath, the Orsimer resolved to continue worshipping him in his new form, and were subsequently exiled by the other Altmer (hence their name Orsimer, which means "outcast folk" in Altmeric). They have since lost many of their Elven features, although elements of their Altmeric heritage are still evident in certain aspects of their society and culture (such as the design of their armor).
No one -- not the oldest Dark Elf of Mount Dagoth-Ur or the Ancient Sage of Solitude himself -- can recall a time when the Orc did not ravage our fair Tamriel. Whatever foul and pestilent Daedra of Oblivion conjured them up could scarcely have created a more constant threat to the well-being of the civilized races of Tamriel than the obnoxious Orc.
Orcs are thankfully easy to recognize from other humanoids by their size -- commonly forty pertans in height and fifteen thousand angaids in weight -- their brutal pig-like features, and their stench. They are consistently belligerent, morally grotesque, intellectually moronic, and unclean. By all rights, the civilized races of Tamriel should have been able to purge the land of their blight eras ago, but their ferocity, animal cunning, and curious tribal loyalty have made them inevitable as leeches in a stagnant pool.
Tales of Orcish barbarity precede written record. When Jastyaga wrote of the Order of Diagna's joining the armies of Daggerfall and Sentinel to hold at bay the wicked Orcs in their foul Orsinium fastness... and burn aught in cleansing flame・in 1E950, she assumed that any reader would be aware of the savagery of the Orcs. When the siege was completed thirty years later, after the death of many heroes including Gaiden Shinji, and the destruction of Orsinium scattered the Orcish survivors throughout the Wrothgarian Mountains, she further wrote, the free peoples rejoiced for that their ancient fell enemy was dispersed into diverse parts.・ Obviously, the Orcs had been terrorizing the region of the Iliac Bay at least since the early years of the First Era
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| Races of The Elder Scrolls | |
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| Mer (elves): | Altmer | Bosmer | Dunmer | Dwemer | Orsimer |
| Human: | Breton | Imperial | Nord | Redguard |
| Beast: | Argonian | Khajiit | Sload |
| Divine: | Aedra | Daedra | Dremora |
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